Masuda Akari

"The music keeps playing in my head, I still believe in Miracles! Always behind you, I'm Team 00's Masuda Akari!"

Akari Masuda is a current understudy of the 151st Generation and a member of AKB0048's Team 00. As Idol, she is known by the nicknames Akari (あかり), Akarin (あかりん) and by the members as Cookie (クッキー).

Personality
Akari is very well behaved and towards strangers she behaves politely. Actually this isn't her regular self. Her regular self is difficult to discribe. Akari describes herself as open for everything. She is open and friendly to mostly everyone. Regular, to everyone who likes 0048. When she is among other members of 0048, she a bit like a perverted old man but it is how she shows her affection. She seems to have no problems with naked girls. Despite trying to hide this topic towards fans, she isn't really able to do that.

She is also known as stubborn: Every morning, she is difficult to get up, because she wants to practise more, because she has absolutly no idea about mostly every 0048 song and she wants to - at least- know them all. (Which ended up with having her able to sing and dance many songs before they need them) Mostly, she pratises with Miyagi, who still doesn't stays too long awaken.

In the past, Akari was arrogant. She stopped with beeing this, because she understood, that she was wrong with AKB0048. Because of this, she often listens to others, when they talk about AKB0048.

Skills
Akari often says, that she has no singing skills. Her voice isn't that good like her dancing skills, which became more and more better after she started with the regular training. She isn't perfect in battles but she is quiet good with Micsabers after the training. She likes them and later regular uses two of them. Esspacilly, because those are usefuller and easiert to handle while performing. When she is on out, she usually has them with herself. Despite she hasn't a good singing voice, she wants to be a Seiyuu in the future and loves singing very much. She even mentioned that she wold be okay with dissappearing if she could sing forever.

Because her parents had a shop home, she is pretty good with 'speaking' with people. She can easy persuade the people. Also, she knows many things about diffrent planets history. History is her favourite subject and she loves to learn the history of things. If she would have enough time, she probably would be able to learn much as Kanzaki Suzuko in the original Anime knows, which she actually started to do.

Apparance
Akari has dark brown hair and amber colored eyes. She wears her hair down with a small tail. Like every member of AKB0048, she has heart shaped sparkle in her hair and eyes.

As stated by several members, Akari would be the last one, they would ask to decide an outfit: She as absolutly no fashion sense, the reason, why she never goes shopping without a member who nows how to be fashionable. Also, her Handshake Event Outfits are usually decided by other members.

Past
Akari grew up in the faith, AKB0048 is evil and bad, like many other people of her home planet. Because of this, she doesn't know much about 0048. Akari always was happy about this, seeing as she didn't want to entcounter 0048. She believed them ad bad people, entertainment as something even more worst, until she saw them.

Auddition
Some of Akaris friends wanted to auddition when the 150th generation was open. This was something, Akari didn't want, so she threatened that she would tell this to the D.G.T.O. Her friends didn't want this more than audditon. When the audditions of the 151st Generation started, her friends tried again to auddition. This time, they threatened Akari. They said, that they would tell the D.G.T.O. that she wanted to auddition, if she would say anything. At least, Akari audditioned too without wanting it. On the way to the Audditions, she and her friends were attacked by the DES. Some WOTA saved them and took them to the Flying Get. On the way, Akari saw the first time Entertainment though some videos of AKB0048. She started to lvoe it from the beginn of the video. The heart-shaped sparkles appeared then. From this on, she wanted to become an understudy. Also with this wish, something which she calls her Catchphrase. Akari thought, that music was a true comming miracle. From this on, she believed, that the galaxy keeps more miracles.

Since the auddition of the 150th generation, Akari had the feeling, that her friends didn't like her anymore.

RIVER Selection
When she arrived on the Flying Get and knew about the Selection, Akari already had decided, that she would participle. Despite she was very scared of the battle, she tried to face forward. After a not so great conversation with Ashley, she met Miru and became something like friends with her. Later, she was together with Ashley, Zoey and Miru in the Micsaber group and trained with Miku. When Hikari announced the break, the girls went together to the canteen. There, the girls sat on the table were the members were. Akari was suprised, that those girls were the members. She didn't knew this. The soon-to-be understudies, Ai, Aoi and Mariko talked about diffrent things. While the battle, when Honoka got catched by a DES, she gave Miyagi one of her ammunition packets, where she read, that it was paintball ammunition. The three girls worked together, and later on, she also worked with Ashley and Zoey to pass the selection. After the selection, Akari was the only one of Aleenstar who passed the auddition. She also was the only one of them who had the head-shaped sparkels in eyes and hair.

Senbatsu Sousenkyo SC 0123
As the sousenkyo was announced, Akari had no idea, what the sousenkyo is. After beeing remembered by Miyagi, who was next to her while the announcement, she remembered the event. She planned also her speech, if she would be elected at the very first and became 3rd in the early results. Before the Sousenkyo results were announced, something other happend. After an AKBingo! Recording, Zoey felt sick. She succed later, also, after this, Sayuri also felt sick and succeded soon after this. At least, in the final results, Akari won the Senbatsu Sousenkyo with 1,201,481 votes. She became the Center of Kibou no Chronicle and also in first stage of the newly formed Team 00.

152nd Generation Auditions
Akari leaded the Micsaber training together with Mariko.

Aleenstar
Her home planet, Aleenstar (アレンスター, Arensutā) is a planet in the Carros System (カロス-星系, Karosu seikei) with Tekistar as neighbour planet. The world is under the entertainment ban but in diffrent to other planets, mostly every inhabitant of Aleenstar is also against AKB0048. The planet is very modern but still has nature. On Aleenstar, the apparance is very important. The captial and Akari's hometown is named Miare City (ミアレシティ). Aleenstar just has one country, which is official called Miare. However, it usually just called Aleenstar because there aren't other countrys. Some people write Aleenstar as "Alleenstar" or "Allenstar". Rumors say that there is a high stock of Dualdium on Aleenstar, however, this is just a rumor.

Akari lived in a peaceful part of Miare City. Her parents have run a little shop under their flat. Akari often helped her parents in this shop. She had her friends and until she was 13, there was nothing between them. But one day, one of her friends told her, that she would want to join AKB0048. As someone, who hated 0048, she was suprised and not very happy about it.

Relationships
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Etymology
Masuda (増田) means increase rice field. The name was chosen, because of the fact that it is the surname of Millyna's favourite game designer, Jun'nichi Masuda.

Akari (灯) can mean light or glimmer.

Her nickname Fortune Cookie was given to her by Kashita Miyagi after both thought a long time, the song Koisuru Fortune Cookie would be called Korisu no Fortune Cookie". Because Korisu is a nickname of Akari's wish name Oshima Yuko, Miyagi started to call her Fortune Cookie or short Cookie.

Her nicknames Akari and Akarin are regular nicknames of her name.

Quotes

 * "The music keeps playing in my head, I still belive in Miracles! Always behind you, I'm Team 00's Masuda Akari! " - Akari's Introduction Catchphrase
 * "0048 is just amazing, right? It's a long story why I'm here. " - Akari in Stage One 2.0: Kenkyuusei Dreams
 * "I'm living here and now, I don't know the future. " - Akari while an AKBingo! Episode
 * "As I said, smile like an idol! " - Akari while talking to Ashley Snow
 * "I want to free the hole galaxy from the entertainment ban! " - Akari during her Speech in the Senbatsu Sousenkyo

Trivia

 * Favourite Song in the New Era: Kibou no Chronicle
 * Favourite Word: Miracle (奇跡, Kiseki)
 * Favourite Book: Akibastar: For our Freedom
 * She is afraid of penguins.
 * Her auddittion song was Kyou made no Melody.
 * After hearing from Member-Shippings, she started to love them.
 * Her current favourite shipping is MiyaMiya
 * The reason why she wants to become Oshima Yuko is that the original member overcame the 'face' of AKB48 Maeda Atsuko, in the Senbatsu Sousenkyo.
 * Her goal for the Senbatsu Sousenkyo SC 0123 was beeing in the Top 2 which she achieved with her 1st Place.
 * Counting Team 00's 1st Stage where she was one of the Centers, she is the member with the most Center apperances.
 * Akari's seiyuu was choosen, because she voiced the character Nah in Fire Emblem: Awakening.
 * In her original design, she looked much more simular to the 9th Yuuko as in her current.
 * She just needs to her a (major) word of a song and the song keeps playing in her head.
 * A part of her introduction catchphrase is a pun of this and Heavy Rotation.
 * Plays the main character Shinji in Majisuka Gakuen 00.